OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 52164

Ctesiphon

/ˈtɛsɪfɒn/
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Ctesifonte
An ancient capital of Parthia and later of the Sassanid Persian Empire, on the Tigris near Baghdad in present-day Iraq, abandoned in the 7th and 8th centuries.
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